The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-03-11

JAABo ARKkLI, OF the Albany So8SNor M
been nominated for the place Of New Yoel
State Railroad Commissioners.
rMR Rhode Island Eenate has passed I
resolution to submit the question Of womaz
suffrage to the people.
TnR Maine Senate has finally passed tn
Woman Suffrage bill
THB steamship Portuensee, from Par
and other South American ports, passed
quarantine on the ID and came directly ~
to her wharf ct Martins Stores, New York
Two Aremen on board were down with
yellow fever, both soon afterward dying.
RoBKRr @. IHoERs0LL 10 reported recov
ering from his throat trouble. It VA
thought ct one time It would prove fatal
HRs. MARY g. GREEN, mother-in-law Of
Ferd. Ward, the convicted "Napoleon" Of
Wall street, has become insane broodine
over her troubles. Ward spent her fortune
in speculation.
The Plastersrs Of Pittsburgh and Ale
gheny City, Pa, have become dissatisfied
with the Knights Of Labor, and have sev'
cred their connection with that organiza-
ton and joined the Protective Plasterers'
National Union.
The American Wire Nail Association held
well attended meeting at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 3d. The reports presented indicated
good trade with prices well sustained.
Owing to the recent advance in raw ma
terial, the price Of wire nails was advanced
twenty. five cents per keg a. agreed upon at
the January meeting.
The jury in the Kitson divorce case at
New York found that young Kitson had
not been legally married. A strumpet
had brought suit against him for divorce,
claiming that he had legally married her.
A PETITION from the merchants and bus
mess men Of Providence, r. l., representing
about $40 OO0, 600, has been presented to the
General Assembly asking for the repeal Of
the prohibitory law.
~ CHARLES STRAEF IL, prominent commls-
sion merchant of New York City, has been
arrested for forgery.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, has re-
moved General Shaler from his position as
president of the Board of Health. The in
dictments against Shaler charging him
with corruption were dismissed.
The Red Star line steamer Waesland,
from New York for Antwerp, went ashore
on Goodwin sands, Eng, recently, in fog.
The passengers and crew were taken of by
a tug and landed at Deal. The Waesland
was screw steamer of 3.521 tons, and was
built at Glasgow in 1867.
FRANK w. FOSTER. town clerk and treas
urer of Greenfield, Mass, is q defaulter to
the extent Of $4,000, and has involved his
father, As indorser, to the extent of 5000
more. Foster did not falsify his accounts,
and apparently made no attempt to conceal
the shortage. He was arrested.
Two attempts were made to burn the
depot at Jersey City with
chemicals on the4t One arrest was made
The resolution to submit to the people a
amendment providing for
woman's suffrage was cOncurred in by the
Rhode Island House by vote Of G. TOT.
THE WEST.
LATER reports of the county seat war at
Coronado, Kan, showed nine men shot on
the 9th. Six of them were Leoti men.
three Of whom were killed and three fatal
ly wounded.
ALL the printers on the three English
dailies in Milwaukee, Wis, and all those in
every job Office but one struck on the LIST
for advanced wages.
The price of gas in Cincinnati has been
reduced by ordinance for the next ten
years from 81. 20 to sl.25 per 1000 feet.
The snowfall in Minnesota during the
winter has been 6S11 inches. The snowfall
is unprecedented for the same period. The
winter has been exceptionally cold, ~ de
grees colder than the average of the win
tiers for the last twenty-five years.
THE brief prepared by Black, Salomon &
Zeisler in the Chicago anarchists case
covers 436 pages Of printed matter.
HENRY HEPPERT, son of a wealthy brewer
of Akron, O., has been sent to the peniten-
tiary for year for betraying fourteen
year-old school girl.
FIRE in Pinckney, Mich, the other morn
ing destroyed five buildings, including the
post-office.
THE pressmen and stereotypers Of Mil
Wis, struck on the Sd in support
of the striking compositors.
The other morning the big -four store
house Of Pillsbury & Co., situated in South
east Minneapolis, Mimi, fell with terri
BILE crash. In it were stored about 10000
barrels Of -four. The damage is vari-
ously estimated at from $4,000 to $50
600. The same firm sustained loss from
a similar cause January 5, when their
East side elevator fell, spilling about 6OOOO
bushels of wheat and wrecking part of the
building.
The conferees on the bill to adjust the
land grants in Kansas reached an agree.
ment on the Sd entirely satisfactory both to
Plumb and Congressman Ander-
son. who were members of the Conference
Committee. Subsequently the Senate &C
cepted the bill as agreed upon.
Four armed Mexican soldiers recently
crossed the border near Nogales, Ariz.,
and endeavored to make an arrest, when
Deputy Sheriff Speed arrested the Mexican
officer. The soldiers then commenced fir
ing, which was returned by Americans.
The skirmish lasted some time, the Mexi-
cans recrossing the boundary with one of
their number said to be mortally wounded.
Grave apprehensions were felt over the af-
fair.
The assets of the Bloomington Ml.) Sc
curity Live Stock Insurance Company,
which failed recently. are practically
nothing The risks held by the company
foot up 8. 100000.
THE steampipe of the steamboat Fleet
wood broke recently near L awrenceburg,
Ind, and three negroes were fatally scalded
IT was reported in Chicago that Phil Ar
mour's scheme to start cotton seed oil mills
was merely a bluff to bring the present
to terms.
Two families of negroes have left the
Cherokee Nation for Liberia, Africa, and
u re are TO follow soon.
THE SOUTH.
FIRE in Wymbish a. Crawley's general
store at South Boston, Va, recently, caused
4 loss of S3O0. 900; insurance, $4,000.
THE steamboat W. H. Gardner was burned
On the Tomblgbee river, three miles below
Ala, on the LIST. Twenty lives
were lost, the boat being totally destroyed
with its cargo.
THE three children of a negro named
Burton, living near Mariana, Ark, were
burned to death the other morning.
GENERALJ. j. FINLEY, of Ocala. Fla. has